Stephen Colbert hijacks MoDo's Column
By Nicole Belle Saturday Oct 13, 2007 11:34amWe're having server issues and are still trying to get things up and running this morning.
While we get that straightened out...enjoy this little op-ed by Stephen Colbert:
Surprised to see my byline here, aren't you? I would be too, if I read The New York Times. But I don't. So I'll just have to take your word that this was published. Frankly, I prefer emoticons to the written word, and if you disagree :(
I'd like to thank Maureen Dowd for permitting/begging me to write her column today. As I type this, she's watching from an overstuffed divan, petting her prize Abyssinian and sipping a Dirty Cosmotinijito. Which reminds me: Before I get started, I have to take care of one other bit of business:
Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn't have to think about. It's all George Bush's fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.
There. Now I've written Frank Rich's column too.
So why I am writing Miss Dowd's column today? Simple. Because I believe the 2008 election, unlike all previous elections, is important. And a lot of Americans feel confused about the current crop of presidential candidates. Read on...
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one thing we can agree on: he speaks for all us :(
Took ya long enough, Pacific Time Zoner!
Wonder if the Times charged Colbert fer the shameless plug(s) of the new book.
One last, slightly OT comment before I leave to watch the Packers:
I'm certainly glad I- and a lot of others like me- stuck by my guns and didn't pay fer that TimesSelect bullshit.
Pinch, we couldn't help but look at the ads, what with all of the pop-ups! Don't try it again.
I usually am not a fan of Colbert. I did like this. Wonders never cease.
Why all this talk about election from Colbert? Whatever happened to his Impeachment Dare?
Oh right, the Democrats are a bunch of pussies!(and war profiteers)
:-(
A Dirty Cosmotinitijo ? Ingredients, please .
That's not Colbert! Where's his cast, huh? It's a robot!
Colbert! the only acceptable Frog...LOL
Maybe he can just replace those losers who write for the NYT, sans Krugman.
I called Colbert with a dare: if he thought it was so easy to be a Times Op-Ed pundit, he should try it. He came right over.
Don't mess with Mr. Colbert!
Andy K @ 3:
GO SKINS
PS: I posted the whole Bill Maher from Friday night....
http://broadcatching.wordpress.com
Now, Colbert will have to appear as a guest on his own show for a book review. Or maybe on The Daily Show with John Stewart for the presidential "bump"
hahahahahhahahaahha, i like it.If you don't run for president can you come to Canada and run for PM
Is Colbert promising World War III (or whatever numeral the next one is) if he gets elected?
I wish he had a weekly column
Colbert are crooks and liars(and so can we).
Brilliant!
I'm reading it and I'm hearing the text as read by Phil Ken Sebben.
The best column ever written under Maureen Dowd's byline
wordpress keeps eating my posts/WTF?
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Maureen Dowd is not sitting on her overstuffed devan sipping her cosmomojitto.
Most likely she is in rehab recovering from being Maureen Dowd.
Very funny. The guy is a comedic genious on a level I am only capable of horribly mimicing.
Hehe, old people look like lizards. Genius I say!
Colbert already has interviewed himself last week. The guy is pure genius, I get so confused at what he is saying I can't stop laughing. It was great to see him on Larry King, laughing, joking and watching his own clips with a little boy kinda smirk. He should be required at every Correspondents Dinner, then maybe our presidents would behave.
In MoDo's intro to Colbert's column, she omits a key part of the joke that Colbert told about the Times last week.
Dowd:
"[Colbert] was ranting that after you throw away the paper, "it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade."
The punch line to that joke that Dowd omits is:
"six months more for a Tom Friedman column."
Not that surprised that MoDo didn't include that quip, but Colbert's joke isn't that funny without it.
J.T. at #11 Says PS: I posted the whole Bill Maher from Friday night….
http://broadcatching.wordpress.com
thanks J.T. i'm enjoying watching the whole show. i put your link back up in the "...Jesus I hate Tucker..." comments.
FYI: Dennis Kucinich will be on The Colbert Report, Monday, October 15th, 11:30 p.m.
Kucinich 2008
I feel the need to comment on Frank Rich and am using this space to do so. I would like to call on all clergymen, of all denominations, to rally their congregations for a mass protest on the Capitol steps to declare our opposition to the torture being committed in our name. Please.
Thanks for the heads up Nicole. I had noticed things were a bit whacko late yesterday. Patience is key-- noted.
Scandal Manager @ 12:
Colbert is waaaay ahead of you on this.
The man's obviously a menace and must be stopped.
His book is already at #4 on Amazon, while Ann Coulter's book is dropping like a brick, (despite the behind the scenes bulk buying of her books, by deep pocketed right wing foundations and think-tanks, to artificially inflate her numbers and make her books look popular and widely read, when they're not), to #35, down 11 places from #24 on Amazon, where she was earlier today.
COLLLLLLLLBEEEEERRRRRRTTTT!!!!!! (Looks up and shakes fist at sky).
~nwa
Would I vote for this guy for president of the United States? Let me just say this: millions of people voted for George W. Bush knowing his record as governor of Texas and in life and voted for him even more vociferously after 4 years and many lives lost. You figure it out, then take a guess.
That man kicks a perpetually wheeling and self-displaying case of ass.
"Let me regurgitate." Priceless.
Ben Brackley @ 24:
I had forgotten about the last line. Thanks. Very funny indeed. Friedman unit. heh ehe hehe ehehe eh
I'm not as big a fan of Colbert as I am of Jon Stewart.
That said... I just sent this column to everyone of my family and friends who don't already read the NYTimes.
High-larious !
Fan of Colbert?
I grin ear to ear whenever I see his pic.
Where he with us today,Sam Clemens would love Colbert.
Colbert would share Twain's love of Colbert.
Who am I to disagree with those Two?
I concur.
As a shirt-tail relative of Mark Twain, I couldn't agree more. Colbert is this generation's great satirist and social commentator. And even though I am of the lizard-appearing group, I adore Colbert.
Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn’t have to think about. It’s all George Bush’s fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.
There. Now I’ve written Frank Rich’s column too.
Priceless.
Some time ago after viewing a link here to Colbert, I remarked, "It's not funny anymore".
I stand corrected. I just wonder if the 29%'ers even get this guy.
Best MoDo column in 7 years. Maybe MoDo should take the package and sip Mohitos on the Beach.
That was friggin' hilarious. Good job, Mr. Colbert.
Andy K @ 3:
Install Firefox, then install the AdBlocker Plus add-on.
great sarcasm
Funny but I caught my girlfriend "petting her prize Abyssinian" in front of the TV while Colbert was on.
Gotta love those euphemisms, if not the sinner!
trevjr @ 23:
Preach it, brother! Never, EVER @#$%^&* with anybody funnier than you are. Garrison Keillor's smackdown of Jesse Ventura lasted for years, and that never got old. Pity the egos in Washington pay no attention to flyover country, cuz' that should have been the proverbial warning shot over the bow. Come to think of it, Keillor took on Bill and Hillary and the assembled Fourth Estate at the same Correspondents Dinner back in 2000 (I think), and that was a lot of fun to watch, too.
I think that if Dubya is so keen on rolling back limitations on Executive power back to the pre-Magna Carta era, he ought to at least make his kingship official by restoring the honored tradition of Court Jester (i.e. the only one allowed to talk smack to the King). I can't think of many Presidents who needed it as much.
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